Berlin Wall
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National Security Archive Update, August 12, 2011 – THE BERLIN WALL, 50 YEARS AGO
Fifty years ago, when leaders of the former East Germany implemented their dramatic decision to seal off East Berlin from the western part of the city, senior Kennedy administration officials publicly condemned them. Nevertheless, those same officials, including Secretary of State Dean Rusk, secretly saw the Wall as potentially contributing to the stability of East… Continue reading
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Gobsmacked by the media By William Bowles
Y’know, sometimes you have to admire the nerve of the BBC and the corporate press, they have no shame, none whatsoever as they crow loudly that now the Big Bad Wolf has been defanged, they can all pat themselves on the back for what a good job they’ve done in exposing the malfeasance of News… Continue reading
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Egypt Newslinks 9-10 February, 2011
10 February, 2011: 16:02:38 — creative-i.info A selection of news, analysis and opinion on Egypt from the independent media. 10 February, 2011 Palestine is the key to Arab democracy Why Israel fears a free Egypt Mubarak on the brink of departure Egypt’s Foreign Minister slams US interference Striking Egyptian Workers Fuel the Uprising After 10 Years Continue reading
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Egypt Newslinks 9-10 February, 2011
10 February, 2011: 15:56:58 — creative-i.info A selection of news, analysis and opinion on Egypt from the independent media. 10 February, 2011 Palestine is the key to Arab democracy Why Israel fears a free Egypt Mubarak on the brink of departure Egypt’s Foreign Minister slams US interference Striking Egyptian Workers Fuel the Uprising After 10 Continue reading
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On the Ruins of the Berlin Wall: From the Past to the Future By Dmitriy BAKLIN
In terms of the purpose of its existence the Berlin Wall was a complete analog of the Great Chinese Wall whose construction began in the III century BC (475-221). The Chinese Wall was meant to fortify the frontiers of the Chinese civilization and to help unite the enormous Empire. The second wall – described as… Continue reading
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Yuriy RUBTSOV Two Decades of Hopes and Disillusionments at the Ruins of the Berlin Wall
The whole picture, however, does not look so cloudlessly optimistic two decades after the event. It became a prologue to the violation of the global balance of forces and the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the XX century — the collapse of the Soviet Union and the bipolar world. The loss of one of its pillars… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 